In Conversation with Sonos Design Team

Sonos Goleta (Mercury Lounge)
October 10, 2024

Real Body: ~~Dr. Laila Shereen Sakr~~

Associate Professor

Department of Film and Media Studies
UC Santa Barbara

X handle: @vj_um_amel

Academic Genealogy

Design

Conception and realization of new things
Synthesis of form and content
Process for solving problems that uses both artistic and scientific practices
At its core, design is the language of modeling; and it is learnable, as it is possible to develop students' aptitudes in the language of the sciences (numeracy) and the language of the humanities (literacy).

An outcome of a research project at the Royal College of Art on "Design in General Education" was the statement of a belief in a missing "third area" of education (1979).

Cross, Nigel (1982). Designerly ways of knowing. Design Studies, 3(4) pp. 221–227.

Science

Humanities
Design

Sciences	Arts & Humanities	Design
Natural World	Human Experience	Artificial World
Controlled experiment, classification, analysis	Analogy, metaphor, evaluation	Pattern-formation, synthesis
Objectivity, rationality, neutrality, "truth"	Subjectivity, imagination, commitment, "justice"	Practicality, ingenuity, empathy, "appropriateness"

Phenomenon of study

Primary method

Primary value

The collected experience of material culture, and the collected skill and understanding embodied in the arts of planning, inventing, making and doing.